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No Other Land 2024

★★★★★ Watched 03 Jul 2024

In a world where video footage as a tool to speak truth to power seems to have lost its efficacy, No Other Land exists more as a form of resistance. As a form of witness. As proof of the Palestinian people's unwavering endurance, and as a document of their very existence.

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Babylon 2022

★★★★★ Watched 30 Nov 2022 4

this is Chazelle's EYES WIDE SHUT
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"A bombastic epic as artistically ambitious as those made during the height of the silent era, writer/director Damien Chazelle's "Babylon" takes the audience on a visceral odyssey through the highest highs and lowest lows of late-1920s Hollywood, from orgiastic parties and chaotic film sets to personal triumphs and melancholic moments of utter despair. As the movie business transitions from silents to talkies, characters like aging matinee idol Jack Conrad (Brad Pitt), wannabe starlet…

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The Santa Class 2024

★★½ Watched 15 Dec 2024

this one was just so-so. art direction could have been much stronger given the plot.
The Santa Summit 2023

★★★★ Watched 14 Dec 2024 1

The art direction and costume design on this one was amazing. Also the script here is a cut above most of these Hallmark movies even though it hits the same beats as a lot of their films. This one is much richer thematically. Also nice to have a healthy dose of pop culture references so it doesn’t feel isolated from reality like many of these films do.

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Poor Things 2023

★★½ Watched 29 Sep 2023 16

Don’t know yet what I’m going to rate this because I did enjoy it but idk how you do alllll of what this film does and never once show menstrual blood. It still so very much feels like a man’s idea of women’s sexuality and liberation. Still keeps women as objects despite so desperately wanting to show them as the “master of their own ship.” A real conundrum.
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Maestro 2023

★★ Watched 14 Nov 2023 59

This movie doesn’t have anything to say about music. This movie doesn’t have anything to say about artistry. This movie doesn’t have anything to say about relationships. This movie doesn’t have anything to say about marriage. This movie doesn’t have anything to say about parenting. This doesn’t have anything to say about sexuality. This movie doesn’t have anything to say.

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